Cutting Edge Courtship in Eighteenth-Century London

Courtship, sex and poverty: illegitimacy in eighteenth-century Wales

This article sheds new light on illegitimacy in eighteenth-century Britain through an analysis of evidence from 36 parishes across the former Welsh counties Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire. Quantitative analysis of illegitimacy ratios demonstrates that levels were significantly higher in certain, but not all, parts of Wales in the eighteenth century. This evidence is considered in relation to e...

Philanthropy and police: London charity in the eighteenth century

on the passions and errors of the soul, published in 1525. Such criticisms, however, do not detract from the main value of this book as a clear exposition in English of interesting and, in their own day, influential theories of the emotions. First of all, we want to compliment Dr Paul Maquet from Belgium for this highly accomplished translation of a difficult text. "latrophysics" is a concept i...

Charitable knowledge: hospital pupils and practitioners in eighteenth-century London

Over the past fifteen years, many aspects of the eighteenth-century British medical world have received the attention of historians. To this already sizeable and growing literature, Susan C Lawrence's book Charitable knowledge makes an impressive addition. What is distinctive about her contribution is its imaginative synthesis of many strands of development and its larger aim of demonstrating w...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe